In this month's Chicago ALT.NET meeting we will be taking a look at Apache CouchDB . I quote from the official site: Apache CouchDB is a document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript. CouchDB also offers incremental replication with bi-directional...

Here are two user group events that are happening soon and that I'm directly involved. July 8 th , Chicago ALT.NET 0-60 With Fluent NHibernate See the full description of the session over at the Chicago ALT.NET home page. We will have Hudson Akridge tell us all about Fluent NHibernate , a project...

Next Chicago ALT.NET meeting will bring a practical look at F#, showing that it does not need to be seen as a niche language. F# Outside the Lab 6:00 pm Pizza and networking time 6:30 pm It seems that almost every time we hear about F# being used it is always in a experimental setting or in a niche application...

UPDATE: Steve has published the video of the presentation . There are still a few seats left for the next Chicago ALT.NET meeting. The meeting is on April 8 th and we will have a demonstration of FitNesse by Robert Martin. FitNesse is used by many people for acceptance testing and many in our group wanted...

Here's my small contribution to the current avalanche of Uncle Bob references in the .NET world. This video was recorded at the February's meeting of the Chicago ALT.NET group. This is the presentation that he will be giving as a keynote speech at the SD West conference next month. The Q&A...